Expect More Sonic Games Like Sonic Colours

Whether you're an old-school Sonic fan or one who's new to the hog's adventures, Sonic Colours looks set to cut fans' feelings right down the middle with its blend of high-speed platforming, multiplayer action and range of power-ups. The game's producer and head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has said in an interview the game is an indication of the future path Sonic games will take.

SPOnG: Is it safe to say then, that future Sonic titles will have the same kind of colourful, simple, laid-back feel that Sonic Colours has?

Takashi Iizuka: Yes, that's the vision that I have.

Iizuka believes the Sonic series has become too serious, what with nocturnal transformations and so on, and wants to bring Sonic back to the high speeds and bright colours of his heyday. We'll have to wait and see if Sonic Colours is a step in the right direction for the blue one, but if going forward the series features fewer hedgehogs with guns then we'll be satisfied

Sonic Adventure 3 would be good if executed correctly. Also, I'm worried about these new 2D Sonic games being "Auto Play"; that is, you practically zoom through the levels without really having an impact on the course of Sonic, unlike the very platform-heavy levels of the original sonics.

Good talk, good talk... I'll give props if the game delivers. Sonic Unleashed's daytime levels were a step in the right direction, so I'm not totally pessimistic about Sonic, but I will remain neutral on this until I at least see the review.

@24 Where do you people keep getting this idea from that it having adventure in the name makes it = sonic adventure 3? For one thing, following that logic, it's supposed to be sonic adventure 4 as sonic rush adventure would be "3". Unleashed has nothing in common with either adventure game, other than the common elements that are in every sonic game, and it was so clearly based on sonic & secret rings for the day stages that I can't fathom where people get this idea

@linkstrikesback The hub-based town stages are very much like Sonic Adventure's, even though there's not as much of a sense of connection between them.

Perhaps this quote sums it up best though.

"As a development team, we originally started off this project planning to create Sonic Adventure 3", Hashimoto told the magazine. "In our minds, this game will have more in common with the older Sonic Adventure series. It has no relation to Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic and the Secret Rings".